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The taille, also called the taille de hautbois or the alto oboe, was a Baroque tenor oboe pitched in F. It had a straight body, an open bell, and two keys. [1] The instrument was first used in Alcidiane by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1658 and in French ensembles known as the bandes de hautbois, in which it played the inner lines of polyphonic ...
Modern makers of oboes d'amore include Howarth of London (instruments in African blackwood or cocobolo wood), F. Lorée in Paris (instruments in African blackwood or violetwood) and others such as French makers Rigoutat [], Fossati and Marigaux, Italian maker Bulgheroni (who offer instruments in grenadilla, violetwood, cocobolo, rosewood, palisander, and cocus wood), Japanese maker Joseph and ...
A virtuoso on his instrument and as a composer, he was also an acclaimed teacher, and published a Méthode raisonnée pour le hautbois in 1798, published by Pleyel. It is reported that he was also a member of various Masonic lodges. [citation needed] Music critic Jacques Rouchouse wrote a biography of Garnier in 2003. Oboist Claude Villevieille ...
Download QR code; Print/export ... is a French composer of contemporary music and oboist. ... Gilles Silvestrini's Six Études pour Hautbois- Trevor Mowry, oboe (YouTube)
The 1st track in album 8.550739 "Albinoni: Oboe Concertos, Vol. 1" Français : Concerto pour hautbois en do majeur, Op. 9, n o 5: I. Allegro. La première piste de l'album 8.550739 Albinoni : Oboe Concertos, Vol. 1 .
The Trio pour hautbois, basson et piano (Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano), FP 43, by Francis Poulenc is a three-movement chamber work, composed between 1924 and 1926, and premiered in the latter year. The trio was well received at its premiere in Paris, with the composer at the piano. It has been performed and recorded frequently since.
The spelling of oboe was adopted into English c. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French name. The regular oboe first appeared in the mid-17th century, when it was called a hautbois. This name was also used for its predecessor, the shawm, from which the basic form of the hautbois was ...
In 1685, Charles II allowed the band to maintain 12 "hautbois" (oboe) players. [1] His death in 1685 was so significant for the band that until the Second World War, the Bass Drummer (known officially as The Regimental Timebeater), wore a black armband in mourning of the king's death. [2]